Soprano's Schubertiade / Sampson, Middleton

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BIS
Release Date
May 11, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SCHUBERT, FRANZ
    • PERFORMER
      Sampson, Middleton
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 11, 2018
    • UPC
      7318599923437
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2343
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Suleika I (Was bedeutet die Bewegung), Op. 14, No. 1, D. 720

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    2. Suleika II (Ach um deine feuchten Schwingen), Op. 31, D. 717

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    3. Rosamunde, D. 797: No. 3b. Der Vollmond strahlt auf Bergeshohn "Romanze"

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    4. Blondel zu Marien, D. 626

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    5. No. 2. Lied der Mignon (Heiß mich nicht reden)

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    6. No. 4. Lied der Mignon (Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt)

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    7. No. 3. Lied der Mignon (So lasst mich scheinen)

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    8. Mignon (Kennst du das Land?), D. 321

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    9. Gretchen am Spinnrade, Op. 2, D. 118

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    10. Gretchen im Zwinger, D. 564, "Gretchens Bitte" (completed by B. Britten)

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    11. Der König in Thule, Op. 5, No. 5, D. 367

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    12. Viola, Op. 123, D. 786

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    13. Ellens Gesang I (Raste, Krieger), Op. 52, No. 1, D. 837

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    14. Ellens Gesang II (Jäger, ruhe von der Jagd!), Op. 52, No. 2, D. 838

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    15. Ellens Gesang III (Ave Maria!), Op. 52, No. 6, D. 839, "Hymne an die Jungfrau"

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton


Schubert’s empathy with women is evident in his body of songs, which include songs to, by, about and for women. Devised by Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton, the present recital brings us each of those possibilities and more. The playwright Helmina von Chézy wrote the text to the tender Romanze, intending it for the play Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus to which Schubert composed incidental music. Another female author, Marianne von Willemer, wrote the two Suleika poems for Goethe, who included them (under his own name) in the collection West-östlicher Divan. And no less than seven of the other songs on the album are also associated with Goethe, and his characters Mignon (from Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre) and Gretchen (from Faust). Schubert was for a while almost obsessed with the mysterious and waif-like Mignon, making several settings of the poems associated with her. Less of an enigma but equally moving, Schubert’s Gretchen sings of awakening desire (Gretchen am Spinnrade) and laments her coming disgrace (Gretchens Bitte). Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton have collaborated on several acclaimed projects for BIS, most recently with the counter-tenor Iestyn Davies as their companion. Here they close their Soprano’s Schubertiade with three settings of poems by Walter Scott, albeit in German translations. The three ‘Ellen Songs’ are from the verse-romance The Lady of the Lake from 1810, with the last one, ‘Schubert’s Ave Maria’, being one of the composer’s best-known and most loved compositions.